As humans, water makes up seventy percent of our bodies. Water is who we are at our most elemental level. We must learn to respect water, as it is us.
~ J. Michael Read
Ruby Beach, Washington State – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com
Even with our differences there is a place we’re all connected. Each of us can find each other’s light. There’s so much to be thankful for.
~ Josh Groban
Pink Magenta Sunset, Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia – photo by sunnypicsoz, bigstockphoto.com
Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Majestic Deer and Forest – photo by Sergei777, bigstockphoto.com
There is a lovely idea in the Celtic tradition that if you send out goodness from yourself, or if you share that which is happy or good within you, it will all come back to you multiplied ten thousand times. In the kingdom of love there is no competition, there is no possessiveness or control. The more love you give away, the more love you will have.
~ John O’Donohue
Grand Canyon Sunrise – photo by JCoulter, bigstockphoto.com
Perhaps our “life’s purpose” has nothing to do with what job we will find, what new thing we will manifest or attract for ourselves, or what mythical awakening journey we will complete. Perhaps the purpose of our life is to fully live, finally, to touch each here and now moment with our presence and with the gift of our one, wild heart.
And to do whatever we can to help others, to hold them when they are hurting, to listen carefully to their stories and the ways they are attempting to make sense of a world that has gone a bit mad. To speak kind words and not forget the erupting miracle of the other as it appears in front of us. Perhaps this is the most radical gift that we can all give.
~ Matt Licata
Summer Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
It’s almost impossible to be ‘healthy’ if you define it as a relationship with yourself without acknowledging that you’re part of a larger ‘culture’ including both the human and nonhuman.
~ Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Plant Earth-Kin – photo by Marko Aliaksandr, bigstockphoto.com
“To be” is always to “inter-be.” Our body is a community, and the trillions of non-human cells in our body are even more numerous than the human cells. There are no solitary beings. The whole planet is one giant, living, breathing cell, with all its working parts linked in symbiosis. We do not exist independently. We inter-are. Everything relies on everything else in the cosmos in order to manifest—whether a star, a cloud, a flower, a tree, or you and me.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Rays Breaking through Storm Clouds – photo by Sergei 777, bigstokphoto.com
If we are being the very thing we would like the world to become, we will already be at peace.
~ Adyashanti
More Lotus Beauty – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
In its oldest form, prayer consists simply in speaking to the world, rather than solely about the world…Can we not cry out to the winds, whisper to the river and the deer, offer our tears to a tree, challenge the mountain with our questions? Outrageous as it may seem, such animistic (or participatory) modes of discourse are simply necessary, I believe, if we wish to really enact a respectful relation to these other beings, to remember the wild alterity of the waters, the winds, and the breathing land itself. If, finally, we wish to ensure an ethic of restraint in our human engagements with the more-than-human earth.
~ David Abram
Ocean Sunset – photo by malven, bigstockphoto.com
The ancient human-Earth relationship must be recovered in a new context, in its mystical as well as in its physical functioning. There is need for awareness that the mountains and rivers and all living things, the sky and its sun and moon and clouds all constitute a healing, sustaining sacred presence for humans which they need as much for their psychic integrity as for their physical nourishment…
~ Thomas Berry
Limestone Pillars, Gotland, Sweden – photo by Olga Miltsova, bigstockphoto.com
Leave everything undefined, including yourself. Befriend uncertainty. Fall in love with mystery. Kneel at the altar of Not Knowing. Give your questions time to breathe and the answers will find you.
~ Jeff Foster
Callanish Stones at Sunset, Lewis, Scotland – photo by stroop, bigstockphoto.com
A great change has begun, an axial age in the making. It started some years ago, when we were distracted, not noticing how history was moving around us. Now we sense the shift ~ like deer in the forest alert to every sound. As an indigenous person I would say a great spiritual migration has begun. We will become what we believe.
~ Steven Charleston
Another Gift of the Summer Lotus – photo by Ange DiBenedetto
The universe is always speaking to us…Sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
~ Nancy Thayer
Water Lily – photo by izanoza, bigstockphoto.com
If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another’s, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.
~ Desmond Tutu
African Sunset, Serengeti National Park – photo by LuCaAr, bigstockphoto.com
We cannot forget that our real power is not necessarily to change the world, but to make a world of change to the people we encounter every day.
~ Cory Booker
Peony Blossom – photo by Tomka, bigstockphoto.com
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